Osun

After OSUN DEFENDER Report, Adeleke Bows To Pressure, Brainstorms With Student Leaders

ByYusuf Oketola

PublishedJuly 19, 2024

Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke on Tuesday met the leadership of the students’ community in the state.

The meeting, OSUN DEFENDER gathered, was to avert the planned shutdown of the streets by the students in protest of the inability of the state government to fulfill its promises on their welfare.

The medium in in its July 5, 2024 edition had reported that crisis may brew in the state as the students accused Adeleke of ‘fake promises’ with threats to hit the streets to register their grievances.

The closed-door meeting was held at the Government House, Osogbo, according to a statement by Governor Adeleke’s spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed.

The meeting coordinated by Adeleke’s Senior Special Assistant on Student Matters, Bashiru Aderoju had in attendance representatives of NANS JCC Osun Chapter, National Association of Osun State Students (NAOSS), NANS Zone D, among others.

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The statement reads partly: “Governor Ademola Adeleke on Tuesday evening at the Government House held a closed-door meeting with Student leaders from across the unions with a joint resolution to jointly work for good governance for all Osun residents.

“At the meeting coordinated by Governor’s aide on Students’ matters, Oladejo Bashiru Aderoju and attended by the President of NAOSS, Akinnibi Mufutau; Ogungbe Taiwo, NANS JCC Chairman; Bamigboye Peter of NANS ZONE D and others, the parties addressed areas of concerns with the student leaders expressing commendation for the Governor’s delivery on good governance.

“Governor Adeleke in his response to the union leaders praised them for acknowledging the many successes already recorded by his administration under less than two years in office, assuring them that his team is pro-students, pro-youth and pro-women,” the statement noted.